If you want to sing you better stand up tall
It was never a hobby at all
The old ones waited decades to sit down
If you want to change you better change your soul
If you want to love you better learn to let go
What good is life if you don't know how?

The mountainside is on fire and they don't know how many dead
The sea-levels are rising and I can't sleep in my bed
"This is suppose to be the new world
This is suppose to be the new world"(X)
It just seems a lot like the old world
 
If you want to sing you better stand up tall
It was never a hobby at all
The old ones gave everything to sit down
If you want to change you better change your soul
If you want to love you better learn to let go
What good is life if you don't know how to die?

Seneca

I was born by the Illinois River
I was small but everyday we're getting bigger
All that coal came from the ground
Sailed down the I&M Canal
Made all the hills downtown
That took your 8th st son to drown

Who needs books when these streets can talk for free
"who needs love in a town so empty"
Well, if you really did the twist will you call me? Please.

We were young, but we were in love
Quite dangerous when you've got a story to tell

Who needs books when these streets can talk for free
"who needs love in a town so empty"
Well, if you really did the twist will you call me? Please.

Starved Rock

Wintertime
Anytime
I'm on fire

A pair of eyes
Makes my heart so tired, It seems we have a problem..

Soul of mine
Evangeline
I'm always crying

Too much to fortify
Sometimes love feels like dying, It seems we have a problem
Its getting way too late
And we have to work tomorrow 
We better go our separate ways

On the road again
takin time
I'm always reading

The fine post you sent
From all around the world
They had me flying
But its getting way too late
And we have to go tomorrow
I hope I aint late

It seems we have a problem

It takes more than the soul
To know where you go
When you sleep or when you dream
And there it goes Alive my friend, until we all meet again

So 
Hold me
Like you never ever ever want to leave
Because I never felt this way before
Watch me Friday nights on the killing floor
Over and over

And you spent so much time below
Trying to let a fire grow
From a little thing into the bigger wind
But like a wise old man told in pun
“Don’t fly too close to the sun” 

So 
Hold me
Like you never ever ever want to leave
Because I never felt so good before
Market Plato lost his flame, hes sore
Over and Over

Hold Me

The white right left uptown
Screamin at the teachers lounge
That the "Birth of a Nation" 
Wasn't anybodies business
The hollowed grounds of Academia
Are the cold cruel hands of old Colombia
Who salted the Great Plains
and sold your brothers for a slave

What do we do with the red moon of democracy?

He got his favorite bat
and he called his homies at, 
to the usual spot and lift him up
on the back of a pickup truck
and they went all the way down
lookin for John Brown
To decorate the trees
with strange fruit made from you and me

What do we do with the red moon of democracy?

Red Moon (What do we do)

There's a man
On a Hill
And he's pushing up Daisies
On a lily field

There's a crack
on his window
where his heart used to be
Daedalus couldn't reach his son
he went all the way down

I got this feeling
That I'm feeling
Its got me up nights
Rockin and Reelin
And what I Know
Is what I sow

But it takes much too long
To take the time to make time
It takes much too long
(no no no....)
It takes much too long

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like I'm already gone
Freedom
Freedom
Freedom

Man on a Hill

Sappho Was My Lover

I'm Building a House
and I am building it for you 
and you are building it for me

With these strings I do confess
what the mind cannot depict 
and the mouth cannot express
they call it love

We're making the shape
out of clay
and with a rose and a hammer it gets bigger everyday
The walls are high and the roof is gone
so we pull something over us to protect us from the storm
We'll call it love

Oh baby won't you tell me that you "love" me
and with a love like that don't you know I can feel most anything
Ya know it hurts to live a life day by day by day ya know
So if its cool then hold my hand
so if its cool then hold my hand, love

I'm Building a House
You and Me
and We are building it for our future and were building it for history
We're checking the list
We're checking it twice
We're making sure that we get it right 
this time

Building a House

18 miles from the county line
Lonely lover on a mountainside
All the things they could not say
Came out in other ways

Rain Fallin
Im Ballin
And we better figure it out 
what its all about 

Lonely lover living in the city
Sure is big and Sure is pretty
Stand still and look around
All the working people live out-town

Foolish Lover waiting for himself
Too afraid of what that mean
To live and love for someone else
Foolish Lover

Route 66

Melt me down
Sacred bees turn me to honey
Great mover of the soul
One day I was whole but now I am less than before, and more

All the rain
In all the world
Fell to the sky
And made it whole
Time stands still, strong to wilt

It was a swing and a miss
My heart was doing the twist
And they were singing our song
While we got air in our lungs

Somethings missing, No beginning
Exiled to the island far away from myself
I dare not sing too loud, it might mean too much

All the rain
In all the world
Fell to the sky
And made it whole
Time stands still, strong to wilt

It was a swing and a miss
My heart was doing the twist
And they were singing our song
While we got air in our lungs

It was a swing and a miss

Swing and a Miss

Come along with me on an ancient road
Feel the life and death of the pulse of the river
Don't you hear me singing the songs from above
Can't you tell I'm in love?
How Orpheus was.

Laid out and starving by the edge of the road
Couldn't play a note to the muses roll
Didn't know the roses of the letters of your name
Before I could see
A muse chose me
"Take apart the heart and set it free"

I know the chord that Ovid played
I heard him play it at the end of the day
And all the cause dissolved to find
What couldn't be divided in the mind
One gate in the east One gate in the west
One gate to get me to my love and rest

Quite the eyes along the stars that shine among the Blueline
Sandburg caused a rustle from the Loop to the River
Never saw so much light among the children of the corn

Quite the eyes among the fires that burn above the city
Children on the ground from the Sea to the River
Never saw so much light among the children of the corn

I know the chord that David played
I heard him rock it at the end of the day
And all the cause dissolved to find
What couldn't be divided in the mind
One gate in the east One gate in the west
One gate to get me to my love and rest

How Orpheus Was

Haunted, haunted like a picture in a frame.  Abandoned in the house that we made.  All the doors were left open, all the cobwebbs were rocking and rolling.  Sometimes love can turn off like a light.  On the road again, me and my bestfriend. Put it all on Red.  Tired, tired from working all day. Ya know its true what they say. That the Hammer goes up and down, like a lonely Tulip on the ground. Goethe Goethe talk about the School. All I see is you, my gorgeous morning view.  Fell for the Montague.  Im sick and tired of walking all the way home, singing song after song after song, dedicated to the sound of a love.  Honest, honest like a light in the dark, got my heart unlocked.  And i don't need to tell you how good it feels to be around.  But did you see these books move on the shelf?  On the road again, me and my bestfriend, sing me that song again.  I'm sick and tired of walking all the way home, singing song after song after song.  Dedicated to the sound of a love that never was.   

Sound of a Love

Don't lay your head down 
Move your hips 
You've got the right to 
Rock and Twist 
Space is full of rockets 
That went on a roll 
They all went away 
So they say, 
"Because it's all alive in you" 
Its all a lie 
"well, it's all alive in you" 
Its all a lie

Don't lay your head down 
Dance with me 
Dawning sun goes 1,2,3 
Hear it in the morning 
Feel it in your bones 
The fire inside burns 
in your soul 
Because it's all alive in you 
Well it's all a lie 
Well it's all alive in you 
Well it's all a lie

Don't lay head down 
Move your hips 
You've got the right to 
Rock and Twist 
Space is full of rockets 
That went on a roll 
They all went away 
so they say 
It's all alive in You.

It's All Alive

New Year, Old Tunes

Searching for Gold

Row Row Row that Boat

Reborn anew, from the thigh of Zeus, on his way to India 
To bring about the realm of man in the vine of the earth 
And standing there ahead of the parade, a king did halt and stare 
And shut his gates to the band outside, where music could be heard

Oh Dionysus , Poor sweet bacchus 

Then a drunken call befell the town, as shouts of joy did ring
And all of the men and the women 
Threw their underwear into the streets
They cried with love, shed tears of joy, and danced from dusk to dawn,
And tore the city walls down

Oh Dionysus , poor sweet bacchus

Dionysus

Mixing folk with steady paced rhythm and soul, these songs are pieces of time. Sweet and fleeting, they celebrate the hopes and aspirations of the human soul searching for gold. 

The Great Remember

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